PlanetCARMA: A New Framework for Studying the Microphysics of Planetary Atmospheres
Abstract
The Community Aerosol and Radiation Model for Atmospheres (CARMA) has been updated to apply to atmospheres of the Solar System outside of Earth. CARMA, as its name suggests, is a coupled aerosol microphysics and radiative transfer model and includes the processes of nucleation, condensation, evaporation, coagulation, and vertical transport. Previous model versions have been applied (by this and other groups) to the atmospheres of Solar System bodies and extrasolar planets. The primary advantage to our version, which we now call PlanetCARMA, is that the core physics routines each reside in their own self-contained modules and can be turned on/off as desired while a separate planet module supplies all the necessary parameters to apply the model run to a particular planet (or planetary body). So a single codebase is used for all planetary studies. Our CARMA model is also now written in Fortran 90 modular format. Examples of PlanetCARMA results will be presented from studies of the atmospheres of Titan, Saturn, Jupiter, and Pluto.
- Publication:
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AAS/Division for Planetary Sciences Meeting Abstracts #49
- Pub Date:
- October 2017
- Bibcode:
- 2017DPS....4921701B